Zerdana

This article is about the plant species. For the Syrian town, see Zardana.

Zerdana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Zerdana Boiss.
Species:	Z. anchonioides
Binomial name
*Zerdana anchonioides* Boiss.

Zerdana is an Iranian endemic and monotypic genus in family Brassicaceae with the single species of Zerdana anchonioides Boiss. A caespitose perennial species growing in mountainous areas on stony and rocky slopes at an altitude of 3000 - 4000m in Irano-Turanian region.

The generic name has been taken from Zard Kuh (Yellow Mountain) in Zagros range, West Iran.

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